Sasha Ingber is national NETWORK SCRIPPS NEWS’ national security correspondent. She has REPORTED ON CHINA’s SECRET POLICE STATION IN NEW YORK, THE WAR IN UKRAINE, the collapse of Afghanistan, the U.S. Capitol insurrection, INDICTMENTS AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, AND extremisT GROUPS.
She was previously a breaking news reporter at NPR, reporting some of the biggest stories of the day online and on the radio — including FORMER PRESIDENT Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, foreign interference in the 2016 election, protests in Hong Kong, and developments in Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Syria.
A Pulitzer Center grantee, she has contributed numerous articles and short-form documentaries to National Geographic, reporting on undocumented children in the United States, ISIS’ No. 1 female target, and climate change, among other topics.
In 2016, Sasha co-founded Music in Exile, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that documents the songs and stories of people displaced by war, oppression, and regional instability. The work took to her to such places as Iraq and Bangladesh, and she interviewed Yezidis, Syrians, and Rohingya refugees. The content was broadcast by NPR’s Weekend Edition, PRI’s The World, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and other outlets.
Following the ILLEGAL annexation of Crimea in 2014, she was the editor of a State Department initiative to monitor and counter Russian disinformation. Prior to this, she investigated the international tiger trade for The World Bank’s Global Tiger Initiative, and researched healthcare fraud for the National Healthcare Anti-Fraud Association.
Her writing, photography, and radio reporting have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post Magazine, ESPN, Smithsonian Magazine,The Atlantic, and The American Scholar. She was the associate editor of Smithsonian’s culture magazine, Journeys.
She earned a master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University, and speaks Spanish and Portuguese. She is based in Washington, D.C.
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